Hair curler



A. A. WEST HAIR CURLER Filed June 25, 1919 INVENTOR Patented ar. 6, 1923.

AUGUSTUS ALBERT WEST, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR CURLER.

Application filed June 25, 1919.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUotis'rUs ALBERT WEST, a citizen of the United States, and

resident of the county of Philadelphia, city of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Curlers, of which the following is a specification.

The device, the subject of this invention, is a hair curler formed entirely of wood. The special advantages are that the device will not cut the hair, will not oxidize or corrode the hair as do metallic curlers and overcomes the danger which resides in cel luloid curlers which are exceedingly inflammable and often the cause of painful accidents.

A further advantage of the use of wood is to be found in the fact that wood curlers may be tinted or dyed in allshades and when a shade is selected similar to that of the hair of the user, the curler loses much of its unsightly appearance and when the curlers used are of contrasting colors they become more or less decorative.

The following is what I consider a good means of carrying out my invention and the accompanying drawings should be referred to for a complete understanding of the specification which follows In the drawings Fig. 1, is a top plan view of a curler complete.

Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof,

Fig. 3, a perspective view,

Fig. 4, a view of the device in operation, all of these figures are upon the same general scale.

Fig. 5, shows on an enlarged scale, a sectional view of my device.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all of the figures where they appear.

At 1 and 2 I show what I may term two arms of a curler. These arms are oblong and flat and extend parallel for nearly their complete length. The arms are secured together at or adjacent to one end by means of an eyelet 4, and an elongated aperture 3 is provided near the opposite end of the arm 2. The arm 1 is provided with a tongue 5 which is adapted to be inserted into and through the aperture 3 in the arm 2.

It will be noted that the adjacent ends 6 of both arms are rounded and that the Serial No. 306,541.

free end 7 of the arm 2 is also rounded so that it will present a smooth, unbroken surface to the hair.

I call particular attention to the fact that the arms 1 and 2 differ in thickness as will be very plainly shown in Fig. 5. The arm at the presence of hair thereon as shown in Figure 4, or for the purpose of causing the tongue 5 to enter the aperture 3.

In the operation of my device, the arms 1 and 2 may be pivoted away from each other or may be separated because of the resiliency of the arm 1 and thereafter a quantity of hair is rolled upon the arm 1 and then the tongue 5 is inserted into the aperture 3, whereupon the hair will be firmly engaged between the arms and in a curl upon the arm 1. In this position the hair is allowed to remain over night or for any other desirable period and thereafter the arm 1 may be disengaged by having its projection 5 withdrawn from the aperture 3, the arm 1 should then be withdrawn from the curl that has been formed and the curl may be manipulated in any desirable manner. 7

While I am aware that curlers of the general shape and design of this present device have been constructed and patented in the past, I am not aware that a device has been constructed or used wherein the arms are of different thickness or wherein the arms differ in resiliency, and yet my experience has shown that a decided advantage is obtained through this construction, and whereas modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claim without departing from or sacrificing the advantages of the invention, I prefer the whole as shown and described.

Having carefully and fully described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A hair curler comprising apair of fiat arms substantially equal in width and oined together at one end, one of said arms being thicker than the other and having an aperture at its free end, the other of said arms having a flat tongue constituting an extension of the arm in the same plane there- With and adapted to enter the aperture in the first-named arm, said tongue being of uniform Width and normally projecting *beyond the free end of the apertu'red arm; and

a the tongued arm by reason of its comparative thinness being-flexibleto permit insertion of the tongue in the opening, thereby to detachably secure the free ends of the arms together.

Signed at the city of Philadelphia, in the 10 county of Philadelphia, 'andstate of Pennsylvania, this 17th day of June 1919.

AUGUsTIiS 'ALB-LERT WEST. 

